GotDrunkThenLost
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I'm part way through my first home brew attempt, currently 9 days into secondary aiming to bottle up in another 8 days (I'm amazed I've been this patient). It's little low on volume but got my gravity as I wanted and the sample I tasted last night was pretty enjoyable so I'm happy enough.
Anyway during my initial giddiness I'd planned on doing another brew this weekend, then transfer that to the secondary when the first is bottled next weekend. My bottling bucket just so happens to double up as my primary so when remembering that having 2 containers full of different beers trying to switch which beer is in which container led to a palm face dint in my forehead.
So I still want to do some brewing this weekend so I can build up a pipeline which leaves me a couple of options of the priming and bottling process:
1) put the priming sugar (I'm tempted to use honey rather than corn sugar just so I can do a brew without "sugar") into the carboy and bottle from there.
2) Rack into my kettle for priming then bottle from there, the problem is this has my very dominant lazy gene kicking up a stink.
My issue with 1 is that I didn't recover any yeast from the primary (I whimped out when I realised I didn't have a clue what I was doing) and I was hoping to recover some from the secondary but I don't know if the priming sugar would do anything to the yeasts that would make them unsuitable for re-use?
Any problems with either solution?
Anyway during my initial giddiness I'd planned on doing another brew this weekend, then transfer that to the secondary when the first is bottled next weekend. My bottling bucket just so happens to double up as my primary so when remembering that having 2 containers full of different beers trying to switch which beer is in which container led to a palm face dint in my forehead.
So I still want to do some brewing this weekend so I can build up a pipeline which leaves me a couple of options of the priming and bottling process:
1) put the priming sugar (I'm tempted to use honey rather than corn sugar just so I can do a brew without "sugar") into the carboy and bottle from there.
2) Rack into my kettle for priming then bottle from there, the problem is this has my very dominant lazy gene kicking up a stink.
My issue with 1 is that I didn't recover any yeast from the primary (I whimped out when I realised I didn't have a clue what I was doing) and I was hoping to recover some from the secondary but I don't know if the priming sugar would do anything to the yeasts that would make them unsuitable for re-use?
Any problems with either solution?